Horse-blanket



(No Model.)

A. H. KINDER.

HORSE BLANKET. No. 399,672. Patented Mar. 19, 1889.

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ARTHUR H. KINDER, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

HORSE BLANKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 399,672, dated March 19, 1889.

Application filed December 12, 1888. Serial No. 293,355. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, ARTHUR H. KINDER, of Boston, county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Horse-Blankets, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object to provide a horse-blanket with stays or strips and suitable buckles or clasps, the stays or strips serving as a permanently-attached surcingle, and also as a means for fastening theblanket at the breast of the horse.

In accordance with this invention two strips or stays are secured to the blanket, the strips or stays extending from at or near the front edge of the blanket rearwardly, and crossing at the back seam or median line of the blanket, one of said strips vthereafter terminating at a buckle or clasp, and the other strip being of sufficient length to pass beneath the horse and to the said buckle or clasp.

Figure 1 shows in plan View a blanket provided with stays or strips embodying this invention; Fig. 2, an enlarged view of the buckle or clasp; and Fig. 3, a cross-section of the buckle or clasp shown as closed, and taken on the dotted line w x.

The blanket a is and may be of any usual material or shape. Two stays or strips, 1) c, are stitched or secured to the blanket a. The stay or strip Z) extends from at or near the front edge, (Z, of the blanket across the shoulder and back portion of the blanket, terminating at the other side of the blanket, as at c, while the other stay or strip, as 0, extends from at or near the front edge, (1, of the blanket across the opposite shoulderportion, crossing the stay or strip 0 at the back portion of the blanket, and being shown as secured to the blanket at the side, as at e.

A buckle or clasp, f, is secured to the blanket a at the termination of the stay or strip Z), and a strap, f, is attached to the strip 0 at the point e, or the strap f may and preferably will be formed integral with said stay or strip The strap f is made long enough to pass beneath a horse and be engaged by the buckle or clasp f. Straps 2 2 are secured to the blanket a at the front edge, (l, and buckles 3 3 are secured to the blanket at the front edge, (1'. The clasp or buckle f which I prefer to use consists of two corrugated metallic plates, 4 5, hinged together at 6, one of said plates, as 5, having recesses, as at 7, to receive teats 8, formed in one side of the plate 4:. One of the plates, as 4, has a slot, 9, and the other plate has a thumb-nut, 10, which is of suitable size and shape to pass through the slot 9, and when thereafter turned locks the two plates together. By this form of buckle or clasp the material of the strap f, when engaged, will not be injured.

The stays or strips are herein shown as a permanently-attached surcingle, and also as a means for fastening the blanket at the breast of the horse.

The end f may pass through a hole cut in the blanket, if desired, in usual manner.

I olain1 1. The blanket a, combined with the surcingle permanently attached to it, and composed of stays or strips crossing the shoulder portions and extended to the front edges of the blanket, substantially as shown and described.

2. The blanket a, combined with the strips 1) 0, attached to it, extending from the front edges, cl cl, across the shoulder portions and crossing each other at the median line of the back portion, and the clasp for engaging the free end f of the strip a, substantially as described.

3. The blanket a, and strips or stays h e, secured thereto, as shown and described, one of said strips or stays, as 0, having the freeend f combined with the clasp, comprising the corrugated hinged plates and the fastening therefor, substantially as described.

a. The blanket a, and strips or stays b 0, secured thereto, as shown and described, one of said strips or stays, as 0, having the free end f combined with the clasp, comprising the corrugated hinged plates and the fastening therefor, one of said corrugated plates having teats and the other having sockets or recesses to receive said teats, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

ARTHUR H. KINDER.

W'itnesses:

BERNICE J. Novas,

BLANOHE DEVVAR. 

